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How to build a coding agent

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469 points ghuntley | 2 comments | 24 Aug 25 03:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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normie3000 ◴[24 Aug 25 05:51 UTC] No.45001738[source]▶
Why are any of the tools beyond the bash tool required?

Surely listing files, searching a repo, editing a file can all be achieved with bash?

Or is this what's demonstrated by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001234?

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1. BenderV ◴[24 Aug 25 06:57 UTC] No.45001984[source]▶
Why do humans need a IDE when we could do anything in a shell? Interface give you the informations you need at a given moment and the actions you can take.
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2. normie3000 ◴[24 Aug 25 09:10 UTC] No.45002679[source]▶
To me a better analogy would be: if you're a household of 2 who own 3 reliable cars, why would you need a 4th car with smaller cargo & passenger capacities, higher fuel consumption, worse off-road performance and lower top speed?